Do shrooms (magic mushrooms) make your brain bleed?
No, this drug absolutely does not make your brain bleed. There is no evidence whatsoever to support claims that it could cause a intracerebral hemorrhage or an aneurysm or a hemorrhagic stroke and anyone who tells you otherwise is telling you a horror story to scare you away from the drug or is simply uneducated enough to believe this nonsense. Psilocybin, from which our bodies derive Psilocin, is the active chemical in “magic” mushrooms. It is found in many different types of fungi, but mushrooms of the genus Psilocybe are most commonly consumed by those seeking the psychedelic experience we call a trip. Psilocybin is metabolized in the liver by monoamine oxidase, resulting in Psilocin, a 5-HT1A and 5-HT2A/2C agonist, if you’d like to do some reading and attempt to understand this more completely. The truth, however, is that despite whatever research has been done (and I shudder to think of the subjects of such), no psychologist can truly understand or explain what is really happening
